- Author: lettara
- Date: June 1, 2023
- Updated: June 16, 2023
- Expansion: WotLK Classic
Maximizing damage on this fight is about setting yourself up for success in the following phase. Phase 1 sets your team up for a stationary phase 2, and a solid phase 3 sets your team up for a stationary phase 4.
Phase 1:
Have everyone stand in a corner to bait and clump the initial fire that spawns. From there, sequester your raid into the smallest area of the map possible while also being able to /range 6. This should be comfortable in any 3rd of the room, but bear in mind that the 3rd nearest the button is the smaller than the other two.
The goal of phase 1 should be to phase Mimiron before he casts lame Suppressant. This allows you to consistently transition into phase 2 at fire cap, while simultaneously avoiding the reduced cast speed inflicted by the Flame Suppressant debuff. If you miss this check, you can have Paladins use Hand of Protection of casters to remove the cast speed debuff.
This ultimately leads to less movement during Phase 2, since the fire will not start growing toward the raid until after a Frost Bomb explodes. The DPS requirement for this is considerable.
Phase 2:
If you did phase 1 correctly, you should be fire capped entering P2. Move to the furthest point away from the fire so that the fire takes as long as possible to reach your raid. This strategy makes phase 2 an ideal time to use Bloodlust even when compared to the multi-target advantage that phase 4 brings.
If you are 3 healing this, phase 2 will be particularly risky, so keep an eye on your health and be ready to use personals and healthstones.
Phase 2-3 Transition:
Have your raid grow the fire as much as possible, with the objective to hit fire cap before phase 3 begins. You should assign Fire Bot killers to each one of the three bot spawn locations. One melee and one ranged DPS should do the trick, but there is little harm is assigning 3 or even 4 dps to each spawn location if you are struggling to kill them quickly. Have these players move to their assigned positions and prepare to kill fire bots as fast as possible. This ensures that your raid will never need to move during phase 3, because your fire cap will be intact.
Phase 3:
If you have made it here properly, you should be able to stand almost completely still in phase 3 and blast. You’ll want to assign all of your ranged DPS to attack the Aerial Command Unit, while your melee deals with the Assault Bot. The goal is for the Aerial Command Unit to be at about 60% health when the first Assault Bot dies, so that the head is spinning (and taking 50% more damage) for the entirety of its execute phase.
Your goal here should be to trigger the phase 4 transition before the second wave of Fire Bots spawn.
Phase 4:
Assuming you killed Fire Bots in phase 3 you should always enter phase 4 at the fire cap. Your raid should not need to move an inch (other than to dodge Rocket Strike) until the first Frost Bomb goes off. At which point your raid should, in a coordinated fashion, move to the side of the room in which the Frost Bomb went off. Plant in this position and focus on killing Mimiron‘s components as evenly as possible.
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